Aerospace Educators’ Workshop

Le samedi du soleil ‘ n FUN Fly-In est les éducateurs aéronautique annuel’ Workshop. From the moment you arrive and get your official totebag, you will be immersed in aviation and space activities to ignite learning in your classroom. After participating in hands on sessions, meeting other aerospace educators, and gaining a huge assortment of materials, enjoy a catered lunch while listening to our keynote speaker. Le prix annuel du privilège Ray sera

être présenté à une excellence en enseignement aéronautique.

Choose from 15 concurrent sessions held in the Central Florida Aerospace Academy. Seats are limited. Register today. And, you could be one of four lucky teachers who flies with the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team. Motivate your students to reach the sky! For more information, please email Barbara Walters-Phillips.(Check-in at the Main Registration Area (Look for Educator Workshop Sign)

Concurrent sessions will be held in the Central FL Aerospace Academy and the Boeing 727 classroom and include hands on sessions by aviation education specialists from NASA, CAP, FAA, AOPA & classroom teachers. (Many sessions are STEM focused.) Visit the Florida Air Museum and tour the flight line. Lots of door prizes and 4 participants will fly with the AeroShell Aerobatic Team during the workshop. (The rides are for teachers currently in the classroom, and they must be physically able to climb into the cockpit, without assistance, of a T-6 aircraft and weigh less than 250 pounds.) In-service points are available upon request.

Ray Lien Award

Ray Lien was a great aviation educator who first had the vision for an Aerospace Educators Workshop back in 1988. Ray was first introduced to aviation in 1925 when two of his Platte, South Dakota neighbors purchased airplanes. Ray enlisted in the US Army Air Corps in January 1942. Throughout WWII, Ray served as a Maintenance Officer in various locations, but predominantly in North Africa with B-26 and B-25 aircraft. After the war, Ray joined the Air Force Reserve, where he continued to serve in the maintenance filed until his retirement as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1970 after 28 years of active and reserve duty.

Ray Lien earned a BS in Agricultural Engineering from South Dakota State College in 1941 and an MS in Agricultural Engineering in 1958. He actually began teaching at Purdue University in 1953, which he continued until 1987. He was one of the few Purdue University faculty to ever rise from an Instructor to Full Professor without earning a PhD. In 1988, he became Coordinator (and later Chairman) of Educational Project for Sun ‘n Fun and started the first Aerospace Educator Workshop.

In Ray’s honor, we proudly present the Ray Lien Award annually during the SUN ‘n FUN International Fly-In & Expo during the Aerospace Educators Workshop. This award is given to recognize an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to aviation education.

Nomination Procedures

The award will be presented on Saturday, April 8, 2017 at SUN ‘n FUN in Lakeland, Florida during the Aerospace Educators Workshop. We request the recipient be present at the Workshop to receive the award.

Anyone can nominate a person and it can be self-nominated. The nominator must submit a letter of support for the candidate by describing his/her contributions to aviation education.

The recipient must agree to present a session for teachers at the following year’s workshop.

The nomination letter of support should be emailed to Bill Yucuis no later than March 15, 2017.

By registering, you are granting permission for the AE Workshop Committee to use your photo for promotional purposes.

To register online, fill out the form below and proceed to purchase your admission online by clicking submit. To register by mail print out and complete a hard copy registration and mail along with payment (check) to: Teresa Urban, 2600 Harden Blvd, Lot 317, Lakeland, FL 33803. Checks are payable to Florida Air Museum.